angelwngs said:
Who wrote it? What were the hypothetical theories offered in it?
Holy Cow..... I have been at acandyrose rereading JR's (last interview, I think it is...) and I realized that in 10 years, I never once considered the profile of an intruder who actually HATED John Ramsey, a killer who was harboring enough hostility and anger that he could literally mean what he said in the ransom note as far as the anger, which was vented within the words of the ransom note, and was still able to twist those angry words to cast suspicion onto the R's.
Please INDULGE me with this possible theory within this thread titled "EVERY POSSIBILITY"....
I hope some of you take the time to at least read it and offer target practice shooting holes into it afterward!
Angelwings, I have read it - it is not a very probable theory imo, but it is an interesting read and at least you tried to fit in many bits and pieces of the evidence found at the crime scene, something which one rarely gets from an IDI.
But the main 'hole' I'll have to shoot into your theory:
Suppose it were like that and an immensely sophisticated intruder committed the crime the way you said, then
why on earth did the Ramseys behave so suspiciously right from the start? There would have been no need for them to behave like that.
For example, they were totally immune to the threats in the ransom note, whose author warned them that they were under constant scrutiny and JB would be 'beheaded' if they talked to anyone about their situation. But instead, they called lots of people over to their house! And the police could walk openly into their house too.
The RN author had written that he would call between 8 and 10 o'clock. When 10 o'clock had passed without a phone call from the kidnappers, the Ramseys didn't show any reaction. Innocent parents would probably have become frantic when it turned out that the kidnappers didn't call as announced.
The parents never comforted each other, never even stood together. They were in two separate rooms. This struck the detectives as peculiar.
Patsy (who before had greeted the police in perfect hairdo and make-up, (still) wearing the clothes she had worn to the Whites' party) showed hysterical behavior, but a police officer caught her eyeballing him through splayed fingers ("I hope my performance is convincing").
At ten o'clock, John Ramsey vanished for a short time, and it was noted that when he was back he was in deep thought and nervously tapped his foot. It has been theorized that the poor innocent man had found the body, but said nothing because he knew it must have been Patsy. But why on earth should John have been so sophisticated to conclude at once it must have been his wife who murdered their child? And he responded to that shocking discovery by only being preoccupied in thought and tapping his foot? Tapping one's foot is not a sign of shock - it is often a sign of impatience. And I'm convinced that, when tapping his foot, the following thoughts were in John Ramsey's head:
"The police have been in the house for four hours now and haven't found JB in the wine cellar yet. It never occured to me that these idiots might not discover the body. What are we going to do now?"
After the official later 'discovery' of JB's dead body by John Ramsey, the couple's suspicious behavior continues. Patsy throwing herself on the body with that theatrical Lazarus performance, which was followed by the Ramseys quickly leaving the crime scene, letting the body of their dead child lying there like a broken doll. ("Lets get out of here before the police starts asking questions").
Their total non-cooperation with the police stands out in bold relief. They refused to be interviewed separately (since when can people dictate to the police how they should interview them?), and when the police did not go along with that, the Ramseys refused to talk to them at all. WHY?
But instead they talked to the media, telling the TV audience five days after the death of their child that they were not angry at the killer and wanted to get on with their life.
The Ramseys were involved in the killing of their daughter. The more I'm reading about this case, the more convinced I am. The evidence pointing to them is simply overwhelming.
But Angelwings, I think you are right on target in saying that the ransom note author had issues with John Ramsey on a personal level. But imo the person who had these issues was the one living closest together with him: his own wife.
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